You do not know what is healthy unless you know your genetics. (skin, blood)

[Raven_on_a_Coyote]

Another article that proves the usefulness of Nutritional Genomics. There is no healthy food or blood level of anything, there is only what is healthy for you, genetically. I found out this the hard way by people trying to tell me how to eat healthy and it was all wrong.

“Good” cholesterol can sometimes be bad, study finds | Ars Technica

In an analysis of patients’ genetic and health data, researchers found that a specific mutation was linked to having exceptionally high levels of HDL—as much as three times the normal amount in healthy individuals. Those with the mutation surprisingly seemed to have a higher risk of heart disease, the researchers reported in Science. The finding suggests that the general rule that high levels of HDL are always good should be tossed.

[jaminhealth]

I believe there is a lot of good info out there today and Prevention in my mind is KEY. In my parents' life and they both lived into 90's the word cholesterol was not even a word....It became a huge issue about 20 yrs ago or so...maybe 30. They did not hold back on fats...and I eat a good amount of fats. Today's modern medicine world, everyone is their numbers...I lived with numbers for 10 yrs for an issue and didn't get help for what I believed I needed...my numbers were fine per labs. But I wasn't fine, I had SYMPTOMS and not numbers.

I keep thinking of "new" discovery now saying fats are good, we went thru all this non-fat, low fat revolution and people kept getting more obese. My parents were not obese, mom would complain when she hit 140 lbs..dad had his beer belly but they were not overweight and the fats were keeping them in good weight.

[Raven_on_a_Coyote]

Originally Posted by jaminhealth

I believe there is a lot of good info out there today and Prevention in my mind is KEY. In my parents' life and they both lived into 90's the word cholesterol was not even a word....It became a huge issue about 20 yrs ago or so...maybe 30. They did not hold back on fats...and I eat a good amount of fats. Today's modern medicine world, everyone is their numbers...I lived with numbers for 10 yrs for an issue and didn't get help for what I believed I needed...my numbers were fine per labs. But I wasn't fine, I had SYMPTOMS and not numbers.

I keep thinking of "new" discovery now saying fats are good, we went thru all this non-fat, low fat revolution and people kept getting more obese. My parents were not obese, mom would complain when she hit 140 lbs..dad had his beer belly but they were not overweight and the fats were keeping them in good weight.

Oh ,my yes. I cannot tell you ho long i went to doctors with skin and nervous system issues that were clearly visable yet all my "numbers" were fine.

I will say however, Your parents might have grown up on a totally different kind of fat which helped them later in life. Grass fed beef had a much higher content of cholesterol neutral fatty acids, unlike modern grain fed beef.
A review of fatty acid profiles and antioxidant content in grass-fed and grain-fed beef

I will say I pitty all the people jumping on the high fat bandwagon thinking it will help then without knowing their genetics. They will certainly pay for it.